Fort Bend Bush Texas coach former NFL standout Alan Aldridge dead at 52 Alan Aldridge the longtime head football coach of Fort Ben Bush Texas High School died suddenly on Sunday night Aldridge who played eight seasons in the NFL with the Denver Broncos and Detroit Lions was 52 years old a 1990 graduate of willow high school he was a standout player at the University of Houston in the early '90s before he was taken in the fourth round by Denver in the 1994 NFL draft he went on to play Four Seasons with the Broncos winning a Super Bowl title in 1998 following that stint he played four years in Detroit totaling more than 200 tackles during his time there after his retirement from the game he quickly joined the coaching ranks